Anyone else "addicted" to buying SSDs? SSD "Connoisseurs"?

[VirtualLarry]

I've bought so many different SSD brands and sizes over the last few years. Even the entry-level browser boxes I build for people get SSDs. HDDs only upon request (such as a gaming box, with an SSD for OS, and a 7200RPM HDD for games and media).

It helps that I have network storage (that's where my collection of spinners live).

I've bought:
30GB OCZ Agility
50GB OCZ Vertex 2
90GB OCZ Vertex 2
120GB OCZ Vertex Plus R2
240GB OCZ Vertex Plus R2
80GB Intel X25-M G2
160GB Intel X25-M G2
300GB Intel 320 Series
100GB Intel 710 Series (HET MLC)
60/64GB Microcenter SSD
120GB Kingston V300
240GB Kingston V300
240GB Kingston UV300 (TLC)
240GB Crucial M500
240GB Crucial BX200 (TLC)
240GB PNY CS1100
60GB Corsair Force LS
120GB Corsair Force LS
30GB Transcend 340 (maybe 370?)
120GB Silicon Power S60
240GB Silicon Power S60
480GB Silicon Power S60
120GB Samsung EVO 850 (3D TLC)
500GB Samsung EVO 850 (3D TLC)
128GB Samsung SM951 M.2 AHCI PCI-E
240GB Team Dark L3
120GB Team Ultra L5
120GB VisionTek GoDrive
120GB Sandisk SSD PLUS
60GB AData SP600

I think that's all of them.

Edit:
120GB Mushkin ECO2
120GB Crucial M500
128GB Crucial M550

Edit: In hindsight, this wasn't meant to be a brag thread. I really am a "technology addict". I like collecting different brands / sizes of SSDs, just to have in stock.

 

[Z15CAM]

Your a SICK! Puppy Larry - LOL

I'm still running my Samsung 256MB 840 Pro with a few HDD's behind it ;o)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I don't know about "addicted." But I refuse to buy anything else for a workstation. (My server is still all spinners.)

I did replace the ssds in my desktop with larger ones. (And went from TLC to MLC in the bargain.) But my purchases are still strictly value segment, so I don't really consider myself a connoisseur.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Replaced the pokey HDD in my laptop with a 240 GB PNY Optima and never looked back. Rolling a 120 GB SSD in my desktop alongside a 2 TB WD Green drive for storage. Might throw in a large M.2 drive later down the road though for a gaming drive (as I'm much too lazy to do reinstalls)

 

[birthdaymonkey]

I feel kind of addicted to buying them too. If I had just kept some of the drives I've sold... I wouldn't have had to buy so many!

Current SSDs in my household's computers:
2x Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB
Crucial BX100 250GB
Micron M500 refurb 480GB
Intel X25-M G2 160GB
Intel 320 160GB

Waiting to be sold:
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB
Samsung CM871 M.2 128GB (came with my Thinkpad T460s)

Drives I've used for a while and sold or given away:
Mushkin Reactor 1TB
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB
Samsung 840 250GB
Samsung 840 120GB
Intel 320 80GB
Mushkin Chronos 120GB*
Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60GB*
OCZ Vertex 2 50GB*
Kingston V100 64GB*
WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB
Crucial C300 64GB
Crucial M4 256GB
Crucial M4 128GB

* = Drives that failed. Two I RMA'd and then sold, two failed after I gave them away to a friend (after the warranty expired). Three out of four Sandforce... never again!

I will also add that I'm still mad at Samsung for the 840 read slowdown fiasco. Since then I've been divesting myself of Samsung SSDs (except for the 850 EVO M.2 that I was "forced" to buy because M.2 SSD availability sucks in Canada). Favourite SSDs are the 160GB Intels that I still have. Even though they're hopelessly outclassed even by entry level modern drives, I would feel bad selling them. The X25-M especially feels (I imagine) like owning a classic car. And the 5000 p/e cycle endurance of that 34nm MLC! With the light duty I use them for, I think my X25 will last until the heat death of the universe.

 

[john3850]

I could not pass up a few good sales.

64GB Microcenter died
128GB Microcenter died
Crucial M4 64GB
Crucial M4 128GB
Crucial M4 256GB
Crucial M500 240GB
Seagate 600 240GB
64GB Samsung 830
128GB Samsung 830
256GB Samsung 840 need to run diskfresh once in a while
500GB Samsung EVO 850

 

[nerp]

I think I've been reasonable. My new Thinkpad has a Samsung SSD in it. My desktop now has an 850 EVO and a Sandisk Ultra II. I have a relic 640GB WD Black for when I'm downloading large files or converting an MKV to MP4 with Handbrake or something like that. My MCE box has an 840 EVO which has been working great for a few years now. And that's about it.

The SanDisk Ultra II in my skylake desktop was in my MacBook pro but that machine is essentially retired and left for my daughters to abuse now that I replaced it with the fantastically superior Thinkpad x260.

Edit: Thinking of popping an SSD in to be the system drive for my WHS box but that's a bit of a project considering the size of my storage pool and the time it would take to re-do the whole dang thing. Contemplating doing an SSD install on the mid-2010 iMac upstairs in the family room to speed the thing up but I'm kind of sick of rooting around Apple machines after upgrading the MacBook extensively over the past year. And the iMac is much more tedious.

 

[lightningbaron]

I'm losing count, maybe halfway of VirtualLarry.

I have given away 2:
Samsung EVO 850 (240GB)
PNY 1100 (240GB)

The rest are:
Intel 520 (240GB)
Intel 330 (180GB; 240GB)
Kingston HyperX 5K (240GB)
Plextor M5 Pro (256GB; 128GB)
Plextor M6 Pro (128GB; 256GB; 512GB)
Plextor M6S (128GB)
Kingston V300 (120GB)
Samsung 840 Pro (256GB)
Samsung EVO 845DC (480GB)
Crucial M500 (240GB)
Micron M600 (512GB)
Seagate 600 (240GB)
Mushkin Eco 2 (512GB)

 

[skipsneeky2]

I have bought since 2012 the following models......

Corsair Force GT 60gb
Corsair Force GT 90gb
Intel 330 series 180gb
Samsung 850pro 256gb

The first 3 above i bought in 2012 alone.The 60gb went from my desktop then landed in my wifes notebook which gave me a excuse to get a 90gb which i really wanted so i could load all of BF3 to cut down on those load times. 180gb i got simply cause i wanted to,plus i put nearly my whole active playlist on it.

The recent 256gb purchase is cause i sold the rig some time ago which had the 180gb.Been stuck on a 2009 based Seagate spinner and its pretty dreadful.Tthe 256gb will certainly cover the 3 big games i play currently with room for the next BF with plenty of room left to spare.

I do enjoy the fact the prices i have paid for these drivers have honestly gotten cheaper as the drives get better.Hoping i could land a 850 Pro like quality 512gb or better in a few years but i think i am covered plenty with the 256gb for now.Maybe a future version of Sata will convince me to upgrade.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I think I've made measured and reserved purchases. I bought my first SSD in 2011 when I built the first of these rigs (the sig). It was a 60GB Patriot, and I used it to cache a 600 GB VelociRaptor.

Then in 2014, I bought a Samsung 840 Pro to replace the IRST configuration, but replaced the VelociRaptor with a 1TB WD Blue mostly storing DVR captures. It doesn't need any "caching" for that.

I put a 120 GB Samsung EVO in my server as the boot-system disk. A 250 GB EVO also went into my second system with SLI all overclocked as the boot drive, but that's sitting on my desk now, because I replaced it with an ADATA SP550 480GB SSD a week ago. Again -- another 1TB drive is cached to a 60GB Mushkin SSD. [See "Operating Systems" for my strategy of dividing these resources between Win7 and Win10 in a dual-boot configuration.]

I added a Crucial MX100 500GB to the first system, and a second one to my laptop. Another 250GB MX200 is sitting on the desk unopened, with the 250GB EVO that was replaced by the ADATA.

That leaves my Moms' old Win 7 system with a 120GB Intel Elm Crest, and my brother's system with a 250 GB EVO and a 60 GB Patriot Blaze caching a 500 GB HDD.

So the inventory:

three Patriot (different models) 60GB
one Intel Elm Crest 120 GB
one Samsung 840 Pro 500GB
two Crucial MX100 500GB
one Crucial MX200 250GB
one Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
one Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
one Mushkin 60GB
one ADATA 500GB
one EDGE 60GB in shrink-wrap, looking for another caching configuration

I just wish I'd only paid the same for the other 500GB drives as I did for the ADATA, whose praises I made in another thread. [I guess we'll find out how long it last, but the customer-support seems much more responsive than Samsung's had been.] The 840 Pro really set me back, even at a reasonable price. . . . Jeez! I think I paid between $200 and $250 for the Elm-Crest drive!

 

[fleshconsumed]

Don't have SSD addiction, but all of my PCs (except for a test box in the basement) have SSDs in them, 6 in total.

1x Intel G2 160GB - bought way back in 2009 for a hefty $450, still in use, still working just fine after 7 years, now in GF's PC
1x Samsung 830 128GB - HTPC
1x Toshiba 256GB + 1x Samsung 830 256GB in my fileserver
1x Samsung 850Pro 256B + 1x Samsung 830 256GB in my main desktop

At one point I had Intel 330 180GB, but I sold it. Wish I didn't, oh well.

 

[corkyg]

Nothing like strong cases of technolust to keep the market going.

 

[Kaido]

I do a lot of business computer installs & go through a truckload of SATA, M.2, mSATA, etc. SSD drives every month. So far, the most reliable & best-performing have been the Samsung line (840 EVO, 850 EVO, 950 nVME). When I first started doing SSD's heavily a few years ago for business machines, there was a pretty high failure rate (the early 60/90/120gb models especially, and certain brands of 240gb drives), but the performance increase was worth it. I've hardly had any mSATA drives fail (NUC/BRIX builds) & no Samsung failures yet.

 

[Oyeve]

In the last year I purchased:

12xSamsung Evo 850 1TB drives
2xSamsung Evo 850 2TB drives
2xMushkin 1TB drives
2xCrucial BX100 (I think thats the model) 1TB drives.
2x512GB M.2 drives.

I basically updated all my PCs, laptops, tablets and NAS with SSD. Even updated my son's stuff. I will never go back to spinny crap again!

 

[birthdaymonkey]

In the last year I purchased:

12xSamsung Evo 850 1TB drives
2xSamsung Evo 850 2TB drives
2xMushkin 1TB drives
2xCrucial BX100 (I think thats the model) 1TB drives.
2x512GB M.2 drives.

I basically updated all my PCs, laptops, tablets and NAS with SSD. Even updated my son's stuff. I will never go back to spinny crap again!

Sounds lovely. That's quite an outlay to replace all spinnies at this stage in the game. I currently have 6TB in 5400 rpm storage drives - once I can get that for ~$500 in SSDs, I will join your elite club. The worst thing about the magnetic drives is the noise - I can't stand the noise.

 

[nerp]

Noise, vibration, etc. All an insane nightmare when you think about it. And we're all used to it and take it for granted, but if you stop and think about a stack of metal disks are actually sitting there spinning at 7,200 RPM near your head. That's like a Mazda RX7 at redline ALL THE TIME.

ahha.

 

[JBT]

I refuse to use HDD as a OS drive. I've got two desktops and three laptops all with SSD's. I think I've got around 15 SSD's in the house.

 

[JimmiG]

For my own PC, I've bought the following in chronological order:

OCZ Synapse Cache SSD 64 GB (used it in combination with a 640GB 7200 RPM drive)
OCZ Agility 3 120 GB
Samsung Evo 850 500 GB
Kingston V300 480 GB

All are still in use except the cache drive, which is just too tiny to be useful as a regular SSD. The 120 GB still serves me well as I've got a few games installed on it. No need to throw out a good, working piece of hardware.

I still have a bunch of spinners, about 15.5 TB total. I would love to replace them all with SSD's, but that would cost me over $4000 using even something cheap like Trion 150's.

 

[mnewsham]

In chronological order:
Kingston HyperX 3k MLC 240GB SSD
Samsung 830 MLC 240GB SSD
Seagate 600 MLC 480GB SSD
Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 240GB SSD

 

[VirtualLarry]

Seagate 600 MLC 480GB SSD

Quite possibly one of the most under-rated SSD on the market. Uses the LAMD controller. Well-reviewed by Anandtech, good write consistency. Not the greatest power-consumption numbers though.

I put one into a (late) friend's laptop, seemed to work pretty well.

 

[mnewsham]

Quite possibly one of the most under-rated SSD on the market. Uses the LAMD controller. Well-reviewed by Anandtech, good write consistency. Not the greatest power-consumption numbers though.

I put one into a (late) friend's laptop, seemed to work pretty well.

I've been very happy with the drive, paid $230 for it back in march of 2014.

Not bad at all for an MLC drive at that time.

 

[Nashemon]

No, but you should see my collection of ZIP disks.

 

[Oyeve]

No, but you should see my collection of ZIP disks.

Ha! I stumbled across my stack of zip disks last week and tried to explain the tech behind it to my 21 year old son. He was amazed how we IT old-timers got by.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ha! I stumbled across my stack of zip disks last week and tried to explain the tech behind it to my 21 year old son. He was amazed how we IT old-timers got by.

My Moms had bought several packages of those things, expecting to use them, but never pursued any diligent routine practice of it. I just gave them away to Good Will Industries. Brand-new, in unopened boxes wrapped in cellophane.

Last year, I successfully modded a hot-swap bay to provide 5V power to an SATA-to-IDE converter plug, so I could use a 500GB Hitachi IDE drive to back up the most important files on my server and it could function like a USB drive for "safe removal" so that I could simply turn the caddy's key-lock to turn it off. I've got more caddies and drives than I can use, but I'm not junking them because of an SSD revolution.

They always come in handy for something.

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

Favourite SSDs are the 160GB Intels that I still have. Even though they're hopelessly outclassed even by entry level modern drives, I would feel bad selling them. The X25-M especially feels (I imagine) like owning a classic car. And the 5000 p/e cycle endurance of that 34nm MLC! With the light duty I use them for, I think my X25 will last until the heat death of the universe.

heh. my intel x25 m g2 80 gig has been in more or less 24/7 operation since I got it in 2009. its been through like 5 systems. bout 6 months ago tossed it in a notebook that I hibernate 3 or 4 times a day. still at 95% life.